Psychologist Dr Faith Harding has expressed grave concern over the number of suicides and attempted suicides among young people, and she has attributed the problem partly to them living life too quickly and becoming bored by the time they are in their late teens.
“You would have four in every five children thinking about suicide and one or more may attempt. I really don’t have the statistics or data for Guyana and I don’t know if they are collected, but it is not available. But I suspect from the numbers of the children I see I would say one in every ten or more attempted,” Dr Harding revealed to Sunday Stabroek in a recent interview.
She said she sees young people on a daily basis who are very troubled and who feel that the only alternative is for